One can buy anything with money except morality.

There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.